Quotes About Awareness

Time is not what it is but how it is felt...

grass can be seen, although it is important not to

People who live on solid ground, underneath safe skies, know nothing of this; they are like the English POWs in Dresden who continued to pour tea and dress for dinner, even as the alarms went off, even as the city became a towering ball of fire. Born of a green and pleasant land, a temperate land, the English have a basic inability to conceive

software is not neutral. Different software embeds different philosophies, and these philosophies, as they become ubiquitous, become invisible.

You don't know you're born. You don't. You don't know you're born

He didn't get depressed, but he managed this not by looking away but by looking closely, attending to each logical step in any particular problem, so that the problem itself filled all available mental space.

It's hard to keep apocalypse consistently in mind, especially if you want to get out of bed in the morning.

She noticed the most important thing of all, which is the dance lesson within the performance.

Oh, there was a certain pleasure. And don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate

It dawned on me that he saw me as a sort of child, someone to be treated with kid gloves and presented with reality by degrees.

Together we entered this new space that now opened up between people, a connection with no precise beginning or end, that was always potentially open, and my mother was one of the first people I knew to understand this and exploit it fully.

They'd met people like me before. They knew how little reality we can take.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢ Ã¢â'¬Â¢ Ã¢â'¬Â¢

Well, we can say that Aimee lives in her bubble, he said, interrupting me, and so does your friend and, by the way, so do you. It's possible that it's like this for everyone. The size of the bubble is different, this is all. And perhaps the thickness of the--what do you call this in English?--skin--film. The thin layer on a bubble.

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

It's a delusional painter who finishes a canvas at two o'clock and expects radical societal transformation by four. Even when artists write manifestos, they are (hopefully) aware that their exigent tone is, finally, borrowed, only echoing in mimicking the urgency of the guerrilla's demands, or the activist's protest, rather than truly enacting. The people sometimes demand change.

There's no woodland or forest-like aspect but it does feel like the middle of something, and wisdom finally arrives, even if only as an awareness that inside the adult flesh cages lurk the exact same children.

He saw that the highest compliment a white Englishman can give himself is the assertion that he is "color-blind," by which he means he has been able to overlook the fact of your color—to look past it—to the "you" beneath.

Poverty is not just a headline, my love, it's a lived reality, on the ground—and education is at the heart of it." "I

He] looked troubled, for he had strayed too far from small talk right to the center of things--it happened more and more these days--and now must try to return to the things that didn't matter.

Hey! 'Hey!' But there was no name to put on the end of Hey and a six foot two black man shouting Hey in a dense crowd does not create easiness wherever he goes.

I felt I was losing track of my physical location, rising above my body, viewing my life from a very distant point, hovering over it.

It's great to just be here with you, watching the world go by.

He saw that the highest compliment a white Englishman can give himself is the assertion that he is "color-blind," by which he means he has been able to overlook the fact of your color—to look past it—to the "you" beneath. Not content with colonizing your country, he now colonizes your self. So

Children are so narcissistic: nothing about other people ever really occurs to them, least of all about their parents.